Integrated Curriculum:
c. Explain how your Unit Development will be integrated with other subjects.

Science:
· Children observe the water evaporating from a glass jar and the residue left behind.
· Children observe water boiling.
· Children work with ice – freezing in different shapes and melting it.
· Children paint on a blackboard with wet brushes, sponges and rags. Children make wet footprints on a dry footpath.

English:
· Read different picture books regarding rain or water. Eg, Rain by Peter Spier.
· Learn songs such as – ‘Row, Row, Row Your Boat’, ‘It’s Raining, It’s Pouring’, and ‘Rain, Rain Go Away’.
· Learn rhymes/chants such as – ‘Pitter, Patter’, ‘I’m a little teapot’, and ‘Little Raindrops’.
· Children taste different states of water – cold, warm, ice, etc and describe what it is like.
· Children listen carefully and role play a water sport as they move to and from group times.

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Health & Physical Education:

· Children make popsicles with fresh fruit juice.
· Play the game ‘Musical Puddles’.
· Play the game ‘Jump the Creek’.
· Investigate how much water a human should drink in a day.

The Arts – Art, Music and Drama:
· Dress up day. Students come dressed in rainy day clothes and bring a gold coin donation. Money raised can go to a drought relief fund.
· Children create a rain and cloud collage.
· Design a poster encouraging people to save water, eg: take a short shower.
· Students make raindrops and then hang them around the room.
· Children make boats from paper, wood, leaves, shells, matchboxes, etc.
· Children dramatise a rainstorm.
· Children draw a dry landscape with coloured chalk and then decorate the page with drops of water from an eye dropper or squeeze bottle.

Mathematics:
· Students draw a plan to build canals, bridges, dams, a car wash, fire stations and houses. Then students construct them using blocks.
· Measure the rainfall in a transparent tube or gauge over a certain period of time.
· Put out a water trough for children to experiment with pouring and measuring volume.
· Students take home a survey, regarding water use and saving in the home. Parents help fill it out and students bring back to class, to graph and compare results.
· Adding and subtracting buckets of water. Eg, it rains and I fill 5 buckets of water, I use 2 buckets when I shower, how many left? Students will draw and find result of 3.

These are extra ideas for teachers to intergrate the topic of water into other areas of the curriculum:
  • The Arts: paint pictures, view or present performances or sing songs that convey the water conservation message
  • English: read articles or debate water related issues in your local area, or write stories about the role that water plays in your life
  • Health & Physical Education: discuss how water quality and quantity can impact the health of the individual and community relations; investigate the functions of the local water authority
  • Languages Other Than English: investigate the role that water plays in various cultures
  • Mathematics: apply mathematical inquiry and techniques to measure rainfall in your local area, carry out a water audit at your school, or understand the amount of water used in your local region; get students to monitor water use at home - read the meter daily, determine how much water is used per person in the household and set percentages for improvement - most improved could win a prize at the end of a month / term / year
  • Science: study the water cycle, test water quality in your local area, understand the importance of water for life and how plants and animals adapt to different water conditions.
  • Studies of Society and Environment: investigate the land use within the local region, the impacts these have on water conditions and usage, and how these have changed over time
  • Technology: investigate the development of water supply and water treatment in your local area, and how these technologies consider the environment and society in order to support economic growth.